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Cognitive and Neuroscientific Approaches to the Arts (December 2018): Works Cited

By Travis Nygard and Lauren S. Weingarden

Works Cited

Aesthetic Science: Connecting Minds, Brains, and Experience, ed. by Arthur P. Shimamura and Stephen E. Palmer. Oxford, 2011.

Aesthetics and Neuroscience: Scientific and Artistic Perspectives, ed. by Zoï Kapoula and Marine Vernet. Springer, 2016.

Aiken, Nancy E. The Biological Origins of Art. Praeger, 1998 (CH, Nov’98, 36-1357).

Armstrong, Paul B. How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art. Johns Hopkins, 2013.

Arnheim, Rudolf. Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye. California, 1954; exp. and rev. ed., 1974 (CH, Apr’75).

____. The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts. California, 1982 (CH, Sep’82); new ed., 1988.

____. Visual Thinking. California, 1969 (CH, Apr’70).

Art, Aesthetics, and the Brain, ed. by Joseph P. Huston et al. Oxford, 2015.

Art and Perception: Towards a Visual Science of Art, ed. by Baingio Pinna. VSP, 2008- .

The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity, ed. by Mark Turner. Oxford, 2006 (CH, Jun’07, 44-5422).

Baxandall, Michael. Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style. Oxford, 1972 (CH, Jul’73); 2nd ed., 1988.

Berkowitz, Aaron. The Improvising Mind: Cognition and Creativity in the Musical Moment. Oxford, 2010.

Berman, Greta, and Carol Steen. Synesthesia: Art and the Mind. McMaster Museum of Art, 2008.

Beyond Aesthetics: Investigations into the Nature of Visual Art, ed. by Don R. Brothwell. Thames and Hudson, 1976 (CH, May’77).

Biopoetics: Evolutionary Explorations in the Arts, ed. by Brett Cooke and Frederick Turner. ICUS, 1999.

Buswell, Guy Thomas. How People Look at Pictures: A Study of the Psychology of Perception in Art. Chicago, 1935.

Chatterjee, Anjan. The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art. Oxford, 2014.

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music, ed. by Isabelle Peretz and Robert Zatorre. Oxford, 2003.

Cognitive Processes in the Perception of Art, ed. by W. Ray Crozier and Antony J. Chapman. Elsevier, 1984.

Dissanayake, Ellen. What Is Art For? Washington, 1988 (CH, Mar’89, 26-3666).

Dutton, Denis. The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution. Bloomsbury, 2009 (CH, Sep’09, 47-0074).

Efland, Arthur. Art and Cognition: Integrating the Visual Arts in the Curriculum. Teachers College Press, 2002.

The Fine Arts, Neurology, and Neuroscience: New Discoveries and Changing Landscapes, ed. by Stanley Finger et al. Elsevier, 2013.

Gardner, Howard E. Artful Scribbles: The Significance of Children’s Drawings. Basic Books, 1980.

____. The Arts and Human Development: A Psychological Study of the Artistic Process. Wiley, 1973 (CH, Apr’74).

Golomb, Claire. The Child’s Creation of a Pictorial World. California, 1992; 2nd ed., L. Erlbaum, 2003.

Gombrich, E. H. Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychologyes of Pictorial Reprentation. Phaidon, 1960.

____. The Image and the Eye: Further Studies in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation. Phaidon, 1982 (CH, Dec’82).

Gregory, R. L. Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing. McGraw-Hill, 1966 (CH, Oct’66); 5th ed., Oxford, 1997.

Gross, Charles G. A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience. MIT, 2009.

Hoffman, Donald D. Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See. W. W. Norton, 1998 (CH, Jul’99, 36-6574).

Ione, Amy. Art and the Brain: Plasticity, Embodiment, and the Unclosed Circle. Brill, 2016.

Kandel, Eric R. The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain: From Vienna 1900 to the Present. Random House, 2012.

——. Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures. Columbia, 2016.

Lehrer, Jonah. Proust Was a Neuroscientist. Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

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Livingstone, Margaret S. Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing. Harry N. Abrams, 2002 (CH, Nov’02, 40-1320); rev. and expanded ed., 2014. 

Ludwig, Arnold M. The Price of Greatness: Resolving the Creativity and Madness Controversy. Guilford, 1995 (CH, Jan’96, 33-3023).

Massey, Irving. The Neural Imagination: Aesthetic and Neuroscientific Approaches to the Arts. Texas, 2009 (CH, May’10, 47-4807).

Mather, George. The Psychology of Visual Art: Eye, Brain and Art. Cambridge, 2014.

Milbrath, Constance. Patterns of Artistic Development in Children: Comparative Studies of Talent. Cambridge, 1998 (CH, May’99, 36-5223).

Minissale, Gregory. The Psychology of Contemporary Art. Cambridge, 2013.

Mithen, Steven J. The Prehistory of the Mind: A Search for the Origins of Art, Religion, and Science. Thames and Hudson, 1996 (CH, Apr’97, 34-4547).

Mullin, Jill. Drawing Autism. New York: Akashic Books, 2014.

Neuroaesthetics, ed. by Martin Skov and Oshin Vartanian, Baywood, 2009.

The Neurosciences and Music, ed. by Giuliano Avanzini et al. New York Academy of Sciences, 2003.

The Neurosciences and Music II: From Perception to Performance, ed. by Giuliano Avanzini et al. New York Academy of Sciences, 2005.

Noë, Alva. Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature. Hill and Wang, 2015 (CH, Mar’16, 53-2931).

Onians, John. Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki. Yale, 2007.

Parker, D. M., and J. B. Derȩgowski. Perception and Artistic Style. Elsevier, 1990.

Parsons, Michael J. How We Understand Art: A Cognitive Developmental Account of Aesthetic Experience. Cambridge, 1987.

Pickford, R. W. Psychology and Visual Aesthetics. Hutchinson Educational, 1972.

Picturing Science, Producing Art, ed. by Caroline A. Jones and Peter Galison with Amy Slaton. Routledge, 1998 (CH, Dec’98, 36-1984)​.

Prinzhorn, Hans. Artistry of the Mentally Ill: A Contribution to the Psychology and Psychopathology of Configuration, tr. by Eric von Brockdorff Springer-Verlag, 1972. (Most recent edition, The Art of Insanity: An Analysis of Ten Schizophrenic Artists [ed. by Candice Black]. Solar Books, 2011.)

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Ramachandran, V. S. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human. W. W. Norton, 2011 (CH, Aug’11, 48-6945).

Rampley, Matthew. The Seductions of Darwin: Art, Evolution, Neuroscience. Pennsylvania State, 2017 (CH, Oct’17, 55-0496).

Roald, Tone. Cognition in Emotion: An Investigation through Experiences with Art. Rodopi, 2007.

Rothenberg, David. Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution. Bloomsbury, 2011.

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Sawyer, R. Keith. Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation. Oxford, 2006; 2nd ed., 2012.

Schaefer-Simmern, Henry. The Unfolding of Artistic Activity: Its Basis, Processes, and Implications. California, 1948.

Science and Art: The Red Book of “Einstein Meets Magritte, ed. by Diederik Aerts, Ernest Mathijs, and Bert Mosselmans, VUB Press, 1999.

Shimamura, Arthur P. Experiencing Art: In the Brain of the Beholder. Oxford, 2013.

Silver, Rawley A. Art as Language: Access to Thoughts and Feelings through Stimulus Drawings. Brunner-Routledge, 2001.

Smith, Matthew Wilson. The Nervous Stage: Nineteenth-Century Neuroscience and the Birth of Modern Theater. Oxford, 2018 (CH, May’18, 55-3170).

Solso, Robert L. Cognition and the Visual Arts. MIT, 1994 (CH, Mar’95, 32-4188).

____. The Psychology of Art and the Evolution of the Conscious Brain. MIT, 2003 (CH, Sep’04, 42-0628).

Stafford, Barbara Maria. Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images. Chicago, 2007.

Starr, G. Gabrielle. Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience. MIT, 2013 (CH, May’14, 51-4959).

Stiles, Anne. Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century. Cambridge, 2012.

Strosberg, Eliane. Art and Science. Abbeville, 2001 (CH, Oct’01, 39-0710).

Studies in the New Experimental Aesthetics: Steps toward an Objective Psychology of Aesthetic Appreciation, ed. by D. E. Berlyne. Hemisphere, 1974.

Trevor-Roper, Patrick D. The World through Blunted Sight: An Inquiry into the Influence of Defective Vision on Art and Character. Bobbs-Merrill, 1970; new and rev. ed., Viking Penguin, 1988.

Trimble, Michael R. The Soul in the Brain: The Cerebral Basis of Language, Art, and Belief. Johns Hopkins, 2007 (CH, Oct’07, 45-0866).

Weir, Catherine, and Evans Mandes. Interpreting Visual Art: A Survey of Cognitive Research about Pictures. Transaction, 2017 (CH, Mar’18, 55-2369).

Zeki, Semir. Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art and the Brain. Oxford, 1999.